The USTA has confirmed the dates/venues of the Women’s Level 1 Grass Court Championships. Previously only the 90s were confirmed. The odd divisions (presumably 35-85) will be held July 18-24 […]
Palm Beach Gardens, FL; 1/30/22 Draws are here Photos are here. There were only a few matches on Saturday (yesterday) at the Grandes Dames Level 2/ITF 700 tournament which was […]
Dateline: Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Jan 28 2022 Draws are here Most of the finals were played today in Palm Beach Gardens at the ITF S700/USTA Level 2 Women’s tournament. […]
Link to results Summary: 35s: Southern d. NorCal 45s: Mid Atlantic d. SoCal 55s: Southern d. SoCal 65s: Southern d SoCal 75s: SoCal d. Southern 80s: Florida d. NorCal 85s: […]
Draws are here Fran Chandler won another marathon battle today, this against Vicky Buholz, 57 61 75, rallying from 0-3 down in the third to win the 3-hour match. In […]
Click here to view draws. Andrea Rice put on a dominating performance in the final of the 50 Hard Courts, beating top seeded Nancy Hilliard 61 62. Dina McBride finished […]
Jane Lutz, 90, played six sets of tennis today to win the USTA 90 hard court singles & doubles titles. Rita Price also played six sets of tennis today and […]
Friday was finals day at the USTA National Hard Courts at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. I didn’t get to see much tennis because I was on court […]
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Draws are here. Day 1 blog Day 2 blog Day 3 blog Friday, Day 4 at the National Clay Courts at the Palm Beach Gardens Tennis […]
USTA SoCal won the 35s and 45s at the USTA National Senior Women’s Team Event in Phoenix on Sunday. Complete list of winners (one match short of a California sweep!) […]
SoCal won both the 75s and 80s in Phoenix after narrowly going down to Southern in the 65s earlier in the week. Intersectionals is the biggest women’s senior tournament each […]
I played Rosemary Everett of Australia today not before 12:30 and we got on at 1:30 which wasn’t too bad. It was fun to play and I played pretty well..I […]
After a day off , Jenny Cerff and I hit the practice court today for a final tune-up before the tournament. We had a solid practice. It was another warm […]
Jenny Cerff and I had a good practice this morning at the ETUF club. The weather has been quite nice, with highs in the low 80s and lows in the […]
It was another gorgeous La Jolla day full of lots of great tennis from 8am to after 8pm. The finals are now set for most of the women’s divisions. In […]
On the second day of play at the National Hard Courts at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club (lbjtc.com), there were some close escapes by seeded players but only […]
The USTA National Women’s 50-90 Hard Courts are underway at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. For the first time, this tournament’s matches played on Court 1 will be […]
There were four singles finals on Saturday (Roz King claimed the 80s title on Friday). One match stood out though, which was the nearly two and a half hour battle […]
Roz King is peaking at age 80. The San Diegan easily beat a former nemesis, and good friend, Dori DeVries to win the 80 national clay courts and then teamed […]
Frances O’Sullivan upset #4 seeded Pat Purcell in a very very long match today at the National Clay Courts in Naples. This is not the first time the two have […]
On a breezy warm (but not oppressively hot) day in Naples, nearly all the seeds were in action, second round (round of 16 or quarters) matches were played and no […]
Saturday was another gorgeous day in Naples, warm and humid but neither windy nor overly hot (temperature about 80). I played singles at 12:15 against Frances O’Sullivan. I played well […]
There is a new Category II tournament in Naples, for women age 40-80, even divisions for singles and odd and even for 50-80, plus 40 doubles. I am playing 60 […]
Yesterday, Friday, was a washout, though it wasn’t super windy or particularly cold. Today was a sunny, cool and very windy day with gusts up to 40 mph (maybe more, […]
No rain today at Crawford Cup! I’m sure the staff, tournament director, referee and volunteers were as happy as the players about that weather outcome. There were a lot of […]
Background: Tracy Houk is the captain of the Maria Bueno Cup team for women 50 and over. She’ll be blogging from Boca Raton and Palm Beach Gardens Florida for the […]
Patricia Zerdan, saying that she felt no pressure this year as she was playing “down” into the 35s (she’s 40) won the 35s singles title in Houston, beating Meredith Walton, […]
Martha Downing edged Brenda Carter today 76 46 76, dominating only the tiebreakers in this outstanding final (according to Barbara Hubbard and Janet Watanabe…I wasn’t there). Carol Clay turned the […]
I played Fran Chandler in the final and she outplayed me…64 64. She moved great as always! But it was a 2 hour plus match…in fact we were at 1/0 […]